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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
A Hermit Scrubbed by Order OF . Boafe
of Health.

,Jabez Hurd is an eccentric resident OF Clinton,
Conn. lie lives lonely life, and is reported to
be very welt on financiallyI but Jabez doesn't
believe in the cardinal principle that 'cleanli-
ness is next to godliness." Some OF his neigh
bors do, however, and that is howit came about
the other day that he was given bath by Clin-
toms board of health. Many years ago Jabez
fell in love and married a pretty widow, who
proved a terrible shrew. lie left her and took
mn his residence ia an old barn. His meals
were obtained from his brothers house. The
yictuals were left, however, just outside the
kitchen door and Jabcz would sneak mp from
his hut grab the food as if lie was stealing IL,
and sneak back to his cabin and deYourt. His
habits were so fiithy that he was regarded rs
good deal Of nuisance, and the town board OF
health recently sent officers, who took and
stripped him of the clothing he had worn night
and day for no one knows how long, and then
at the house pump, with a liberal supply or
soap and scruhbinS brushes, gave him the wash
ing he so badly needed, and cleaned out the
matted hair and beard that had known no como
for years Then they gave him new and clean
clothing and allowed him to return to his hut,
clean but a no less soured and obstinate hermit
than before lie has brought suit against the
town
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
CHOCOLATE CUSTARDS
Professional Poets.

The general belief that poetry has.
gone to seed and that the poet is rap
idly following in the footsteps of the
dodo and the dinornis is an odd para
dox. As a matter of fact, poetry was
never so much appreciated and enjoyed
as to-day; the poet never had so pl cas-
ant a position socially, professionally
and pecuniarily, and never before was
the poetic talent so widely and largely
distributed. The magazines and week
lies present poems in every issue equal
if not superior to the best work of nine
tenths of the great versifers of antiq-
uity.
The Sunday.issues of the leading dai-
lies usually give at least column of
new poems that in quality and finish
are as good as anything that Longfel-
low, Lowell. Holmes or Bryant have
written. As result of this state of af-
fairs, it is a thousand times more diff
cult for man TO achieve poetic emil
hence than it was ever before in the
history of literature.
At the smallest calculation there are
over one hundred versemakers in the
United States who daily produce bet
ter poems than any single piece that
saw the light in both Great Britain and
the American colonies in the eighteenth
century.
The trouble with the modern poet
lies in the extent of competition. The
standard price paid to-day in England
for poem is one pound and in the
United States ten dollars. From this
it runs down uncomfortably TO three
and even two dollars!
There are many publishers so mean,
and more poets so poor. that it is an
every day occurrence for the one to
buy and the Other to sell verses at
twenty-five dollars per dozen which
have taken no less than two DAYS each
in composition and revision. Women
and poor clerks are the chief sinners
and sinned against in this respect. and
their number seems to increase every
day.-1he Journalist.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31


convinced. The tr ade holds about the
same the year round. In the summon
there is bigger dema nd. of course.
for fruit and berry pies. and when
their season is over Thanksgiving and
Christmas come along and with tn EN-
big demand for mince and pumpkin
pies.
TO give you some idea of the extent
of the business. here are few figures.
We average about 4.500 per day
through the year, which makes $1,000
pies per week, or l. 5SS, 500 pies for the
entire year. In a single day we use for
the average run of pies 40 tubs of 81
quarts each of fruit 500 quarts of milk.
barrels of flour. 500 pounds of lard.
400 pounds of cheese. 60 dozen eggs.
and various other ingredients in lesser
quantities. OF course, the materials
vary according to the kind of pies we
make. but these figures represent about
the quantity of materials used daily.
Now there are three or four other
large pie-bakeries. and the total out
put from all the large concerns is about
10000 pies daily. Then there are hun
dreds of small bakeshops, and each of
them makes from half dozen to sew
eral hundred pies. or altogether about
%. 600 per day. This makes the total
number about $4,000 per day, or 49,
$50. 900 in year.
Taking these figures as basis, some
startling calculations can be made in
reference to the pie consumption OF
this city. Every day there are cooked,
sold. and eaten in this city about 49,
600 large pies. each of which measures
nine inches in diameter and one and
One-eighth inches in thickness. Now,
if these are piled one above the other
they would form solid pillar of pie
1928 feet high, nea rly eighteen times
rs high as the tall tower of The Record
building. or four and nine-tenths times
as high as the tower of the public build
ings will lie when comp leted. In adj
ditition to the big pies cons umed daily.
there are about 1000 small ones, meas
uring four inches in diameter and three
quarters of an inch in thickness These
little affairs would make a pie pillar L.
23S feet in height. and if the big and
little pies should all be piled in one col
umn there would solid shaft of pie
reaching heavenward for more than
half n mile. If all these pies should be
laid side by side on the ground they
would extend a distance of 461-66
heightened daily for a year. not in
Guiding Sunday. it would reach over
1,54l miles. This would give line of
pies from here to Chicago and back
aga II nearly to Harrisburg.
The weight of the pies put away by
the people of this city every day is
something like "A tons, or 16, O60 tons
in year. Many sorry dyspeptic who
tackles a poorly-baked pie doubtless
feels, however. that the single quarter
section he has eaten rests as heavily
upon his stomach as would the entire
annual product.
The estimation of the effects of the
countless mince pies which are eaten
every year at Thanksgiving and Christ
mas opens up another interesting field
field for calculation. No one has vet
been found able to compute the exact
number of cubic feet of nightmare per
mnce pie, but any sufferer can readily
make an estimate to suit himself.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
HE OPIUM HABIT
The Most AFFECT Of sIaverie.-I, Thar.
Any Emancipator.

The Most AFFECT Of sIaverie.-I, Thar.
Any Emancipator.
The New York papers lately npb.
lished very pathetic story about a
very popular emotional actress. II was
to the effect that she had become a con.
firmed victim of the opium habit, in
yolving an almost total loss OF physical
and mental powers, and actual destitu-
ton.
The story was at once denied by her
friends, who say she has suffered Simply
from nervous prostration, is in no need
of pecuniary aid, and is on the way to
speedy recovery.
Opium victims are usually hopeless.
helpless slaves, mind weakened, lacking
energy for any effort toward recovery,
rapidly drifting into imbccility and un-
timely graves.
A peculiar feature is that victims
craftily conceal it from their nearest
friends. \ young lady at school near
Philadelphia WAS recently found 10 DO
secretly addicted to it, Keeping her
"mcdicine" in schoOl-rcom Inkstand,
and injecting the fluid into her arm
with a photographic pen.
In the Chicago Farm Ficld and stock.
man, September 81, 1887, Is This letter
signed :. y. o.. from Barstow, n.y.:
81 missed the paper that had my letter
in, so did not know that you made
the request to know what it was used
to break up the morphine habit, until
got letter from gentleman asking in
To-. a. Il a
sooner. 1t was Warmers safe cure. [
should have given ii when | wrote the
letter. but it looked too much like an
advertisement"
This voluntary statement goes to con.
firm the claim made by the proprie-
tors of Warmers safe cure, that il is the
only remedy in the world which has
any decided power over disease, of the
kidneys and liver, and that this terri
BILE habit cannot be cured until these
organs have first been restored to full
health, because they are the ones.
chiefly affected by this drug.
Editor VIM. A. Bode, of Alton, ILL.,,
was completely cured of the opium
habit, acquired by long use in a painful
malady, with Warmers safe cure. IL
cannot be cured at all if the kidneys
and liver are diseased.
1t is not claimed that there is any
thing in Warmers safe cure atone which
Will do away with the habit, except
that it puts the kidneys and liver in
healthy condition, giving the whole
system that strength and tone without
which airy attempt to throw of the
habit, would be vain.
Ii is because physicians have discov-
cred that no other remedy is so bcne-
fetal in restoring health to the liver,
kidneys and general system as the one
stated that it has come into general use
in connection with the special remedies
for the cure of the dreadful opium
habit.
One of the worst features Of the
opium habit is the deadening of mental
and moral sensibilities in proportion as
1t weakens the physical system and th1
will power.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

A man who has practced medicine for 40 years
ought to known salt from sugar: read what he
says: toledo, o. Jan. 10, lSS7 .--Messrs. +. J,
Cheney & Go. Gentlemen have been i'm the
general practice of medicine for most 40 years
and would say that in all my practice and e1
perience, have never seen preparation that
could prescribe with as much confidence of sue
cess as can Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by you. Have prescribed it a great many times
and its effect is wonderful, and would say in
conclusion that have yet to find ease of ca
taarh that il would not cure, if they would take
according TO directions. Yours truly, l.. l..
Gorsuch, NJ. ID. Office 2l5 summit St
We will give 500 for any case of cat arrk that
can not be cured with Halls Catarrh Cure.
Taken internally. +. J. Cheney Co, prop'rs,
Toledo, o. Sold by druggists, 75c.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
More Work for ANTHONY.

The disgusting indecency of the
trees in our public parks is commence
ing to call for exemplary punishment.
Every one of them is stripped stark
naked of its leaves. and exposes itself
in the most shamelessly demon alizng
manner TO the innocent eyes of oul
school children, and The Society to,
the Suppression 81 Wee. -Aas ywi
yrath
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
Old-Fashioned Propriety.

Those society balls" were conduct
ed with great propriety and reserve.
The claim of every person of both sexes
to be admitted having been previously
determined by the responsible and
trustworthy committee, there was sort
OF temporary and conventional equality
on the terpsichOrean floor; and there
fore every gentleman had the privilege
to invite lady. without the Formally
OF an introduction, to figure in the
dance us his partner. After it was over
he escorted her back respectfully to her
seat without presum:ng, if unknown
and not duly presented. TO remain
standing before her. or to sit by her
side, to continue the conversation, or
prolong the accidental acquaintance.
During the intervals of dancing. the
gentlemen walked up and down be-
tween the rows of ladies that densely
lined the hall. some merely bowling, TO
those whom they knew. and others.
stopping to converse. No woman,
married or single, joined in this prom
enading with male companion as is
the custom in these present days and
the eye of lynx could not have de-
tected the slightest Irritation. The
word itself was not known, for the
thing it means is for Louisiana mod
ern invention which has not been pat
ented and brought out for public use.
In fact this peculiar pastime would
have been impossible to attempt; it
would have produced a social earth.
quake. Maqayine.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
A Country Editors Thanksgiving.

II is twelve years last Friday night since we
and the little woman up yonder on the hill
plghtcd our troth. No turkey sraced the board
Of the anniversary, no dainty feast was spread.
Nothing save table for six and plain home
fare" and bright eyes, chubby faces, dimpled
cheeks aud hands, Kisses and love words, to-
gcther with sincere trust in God for all time.
What grander bill of fare could be furnished for
any wedding anniversary? God bless all hus-
bands and wives and children and home. This
is our anniversary all the year round prayer.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Good morning, Cicely, dear. Pm so glad
you came in. l want your advice about my
toilet for the ball"
$50 glad. Have something quite new to
wear?''
''No, not exactly new; but then, you know,
| have never worn that corn color except at
watering place hops
'And l certainly never should wear il any
where else.'
'Why, you said looked lovely"
That's just the reason she didn't want her TO
wear it.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
II Sufferers from Consumption,

Screfull Bronchitis, and General Debility will
try SCOTS Emulsion Of Cod Liver Oil with Hy-
pophospitc5, they will ffnd immediate relief and
permanent benefit. The medical profession uni
Versaly declare it remedy of the greatest val
ue and very palatable. Read: II have used
SCOTS Emulsion in several cases of Scrofula
and Debility in children. Results most crafty
ing. My little patients take it with pleasure. "
w. A. Humbert, NJ d, Salisbury, Ill.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

We would be pleased TO know Of a man OF
woman who has never had headache or been
subject TO constipation. As these seem to be
universal troubles a little advice MAJ he in or
der. Why should persons cram their .tomachs
with nauseatinc purgative pills, etc, which
sicken and debiIitate when such pleasant and
sterling remedy as Prickly Ash Bitters will act
mildly aud effectively on the liver, kidneys,
stomach AMI bowels, and at the same time tone
up and strengthen the whole system, causing
headache, constipation and all distressing evils
to quickly diuappear.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
ConsumpIion surely Cured.

To the Editor: - Please inform your
readers that | have a positive remedy for
the above named disease. BY its
timely use thousands of hopeless cases have
bees permanently cured | shall be glad to
send two bottles of nv remedy free to any of
your readers who have consumption if they will
send me their Express and 2. o. address. Res
PectTully, L. A. Slocum. NJ. c., Isl Pearl St. #,
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Grandfather Clock is an Object of reverence
among the modern things OF beauty and use in
every complete home, aud home il scarcely
deemed complete without a bottle Of Coussens'
Honey of Tar, To use when any the home cir
cle are afflicted with coughs, colds, or diseases
of throat and lungs. Its popularity, achieved
by merit, increases day by ia
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
Half Rntcs for the Holidays.

The Wabash Western Railway Company an
nounces that it will sell Holiday Excursion
Tickets between all stations at one fare for the
round trip, on December 2ith, 18th and 18th:
December Slst, January LIST and End. Good go
ing on date of sale. Good returning up to and
including January Sd, lSSs. For further par
ticulars apply to the nearest ticket agent of the
Wabash Western Hallway
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

VIM. Hanscom, Oshkosh, Wis, who was for
seven years 40 afflicted with piles that he was
unable to attend business, is entirely cured by
the use o. Coles Carbolsalye. Price % and 80
cents, at Druggists.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Mrs Samuel Washington, of Cincinnati, has
just added two girls and a boy to her family.
She did this very thing once before The trip
lets are all black. So is Mrs. Washington and
her husband.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Robert G. Richardson, of Bottsford. Vt, IL
an uneasy soul. He has just sold his farm and
moved which makes the thirteenth time that he
has done the same thing during the last thirty
i've wears
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

sir Augustus Patget might have succeeded
Lord Lyons as British Ambassador to Paris but
for the fact that Lady Paget is a German AMI
therefore would have been unwoleome in
Erancn-
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

The Enfield rifle with which Boston CorbetI
shot John Wilkes Booth has been bought by
Grand Army post at Concordia. Kan, for 81.
and placed in their hall as a relic.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Our advice 10 YOU is not to catch a cold if you
can help it, but having caught it, rid yourself of
it promptly by using the remedy known all over
the world as Coussens' Honey Of Tar, simple
preparation equaled 10y none for purity and
efficacy. When used according to directions, a
positive cure is effected for coughs, colds, and
diseases of throat and lungs.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
of the Washington Blood,

We have ono ofGeorge Washington s descend
ants in this Congress in the person of Joseph T.
Washington, who succeeds Representative Cald-
well of Nashville. Washington is a young man
not over 80, small, stout and lSht-haircd. lie
doesn't show much evidence of the Washington
features in his countenance, but he is, il is un-
derstoOd, worth 81 ,Oo0, 0o0, and most of his
property comes by Inheritance. 1t is curious
thing that descendant of George Washington
should represent the district of Andrew Jack
son.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Mrs Crobar is powerful lever in a Saginaw,
Mich, church society. where tho Rev MIR
BroadaN hews branch from the tree Of evil
every Sunday.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Forty alleged heirs of Jean II. Becquette are
about to bring suit for SO 600 600 worth Of the
center Of st. Louis. One of their attorneys was
formerly employed by Myra Clark Gaines in
New Orleans
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Madame Carnot, the wife OF tho new Presi
dent of the French Republic, is a daughter of
Dupont White, a political economist. She is
described as "a very beautiful woman.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

For coughs and throat disorders use Browns
Bronchial Troches.-liaye never changed nv
mind respecting them, except | think better ~
that which l began thinking will of. REV.
Henry Ward Beecher. Sold only in boxes
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Elizabsth Stuart Phelps lie suffering from 20
affection Of the eyes and ia Obliged to 10 hrI
library TeIk by the ad Of 81 smhnseasia, SO
Is liflsa aaistly 81 anaaSsS, Ssss.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
Eavoritisni

is bad thing, but Dr Picrcc's "Favorite Pro.
scrition" deserves its pane II is certain
cure for those painful malades and weaknesses
which cmbtter the lives of 30 many women OF
druggists.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

PRESIDENT Cleveland has accepted an invita-
hon TO be the guest Of the Society of the Consti.
tutional Centennial at dinner in Philadelphia,
on January ~
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

william Waiter Phelps is nursing frah
Nice-Presidential boom. But it is not believed
that the second place in the Republican ticket
will go OF with a bang.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Hence, the force ofthe following voluntary let
Ger. which is based upon the conscientious con-
viction formed from the long and cautious
experience of leading drug house of Boston,
represents in every line most important
and valued revelation: Boston, July III,
Iss7.-The Charles A. Vogeler Co.-Gentle-
men: Many preparations are placed before
the public, and for "a time at least they have
large but temporary sale-large, because Of
the extensive advertising; temporary. as the
suffering class soon realize that the COM
pound possesses but little merit. Not so with
81. Jacobs Oil. Its success has been constant
from the start, and to-day we regard il as one
Of those standard remedies that our trade
consider as absolutely essential to always
carry in their stock. Personal experience
aud the good words Of the druggists of New
England all tend to prove that each year will
add to its sale and well deserved popularity.
Signed, Doolittle q Smith" Taking the
many cases OF cure, published by the pro-
prietors, examples are given Of its unvarying
effects in the worst chronic cases, and there
is nothing in t.Ads which can approach ito
efficacy.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Rev. DR.. Warren claims that il there were no
women on the stsSc no men would go to the
theatre. How does he account for the time
honored popularity of minstrel shows?
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31
A Woman's Reasons.

If aflhcted with sore eyes, use DR.. Isaac
ThomdsOn's Eye Water. Druggist sell it. &c
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

All the Territorial Governors of Wisconsin
are dead. Nelson Dewey, the first State Cover
nor, is still living, as arc also ex-Goycrnors
Farwell, Solomon, Lewis, Fairchild, Taylor
and Ludington.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

Mrs. James Heron, of Pittsburg, is 10i years
old, but as hale and hearty as woman thirty
years younger. She preserves all her faculties
perfectly, except her meUiory.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

salvation Oil is guaranteed to cure rhcuma
tsin. sore throat. swellings, bruises, burns.
anu irostbitcs. Price only - cents a bottle
TO make children healthy use plenty of air,
plenty Of milk, plenty of sleep, and always hays
bottle Of DIR. BULBS Cough Syrup in ease Of
Group.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-31

1t is now recalled that NJ. Drumont, in his
remarkable book, LA France" intimated
that NJ Daniel Wilson had improperly bestowed
q Legion Of Honor decoration